Word: nine
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Israel, just one year old last week, got exactly what it had wanted for a birthday present: membership in U.N. The General Assembly having voted it in, 37-to-12 (with nine abstentions), welcomed U.N.'s 59th member with a standing ovation, politely forgot that the Israelis had again & again been at outs with U.N. The Israelis had balked when U.N. demanded that Jerusalem be internationalized, balked again when they were told to take back Palestine's Arab refugees...
...Pimlico last week, when Jockey Atkinson mounted Capot again for the $75,000 Preakness, the track was lightning fast as the nine horses shot from the starting gate. Noble Impulse, the pacemaker, chopped a second off the track record for the half-mile, 2 4/5 seconds off the seven-furlong mark (with a sizzling 1:23 1/5). In the stretch, Slasher Atkinson went to the whip and drove into the lead. Atkinson no longer had to worry about groggy Noble Impulse, but Eddie Arcaro, aboard Palestinian, had slipped through a hole on the bend. For the last 100 yards...
...That was nine years ago. Since then, the First Piano Quartet has crisscrossed the U.S. on concert tours, made dozens of recordings for RCA Victor (their Chopin Favorites album is No. 3 bestseller among classical albums), was co-winner of this year's Musical America award for the best instrumental ensemble on the air and helped NBC win the Peabody award for "good music." Last week, the First Piano...
This is a fairly rare occurrence for the '52 nine, for in almost all its games to date, it has either slaughtered vastly inferior teams or been hopelessly outclassed...
...have been sporadically dangerous this year, winning only one EIBL game in five starts. They often outhit their opponents but their fielding has been sub-par. Every once in a while, however, they will explode for a large number of runs. They beat Yale, 13 to 4, and scored nine against Dartmouth and 10, 13, and 11 in three other games. Coach Paul Amen's soldiers forced Cornell and the Brooklyn Dodgers into extra innings before dropping one-run decisions...